{"id":6553,"date":"2019-11-20T14:50:54","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T14:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/houyi-shot-the-suns-hou-yi-she-ri\/"},"modified":"2019-11-20T14:50:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T14:50:54","slug":"houyi-shot-the-suns-hou-yi-she-ri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/houyi-shot-the-suns-hou-yi-she-ri\/","title":{"rendered":"Houyi Shot the Suns \u540e\u7fbf\u5c04\u65e5"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Houyi, also called simply Yi, was the hero who shot  the suns in the ancient mythology of China. He is sometimes potrayed as a  god of archery descended from heaven to aid mankind, and sometimes as  the chief of the Youqiong Tribe during the Xia Dynasty.<\/p>\n<p>  In Chinese mythology, the sun&#8217;s true forms are the Sun-birds. It is  believed that there were ten of them, whom all the offspring of Dijun,  God of the Eastern Heaven. Each morning, one of these Sun-birds was to  rise and give the world light. One day, the Sun-birds grew tired of the  routine and decided that all of them were to rise at once. The heat on  earth then became intense. At a result, crops shrivelled in the fields,  lakes and ponds dried up, and humans and animals cowered in shelters or  collasped from exhaustion.<\/p>\n<p>  It was too hot to live under the suns. To save the people, Yi started to  shoot the suns.He shot down nine of them one by one, and he might have  shot the last one if it was not called off by others. Thus the severe  drought was gone. He also got rid of those fierce animals for the  people.<\/p>\n<p>  It is said Yi&#8217;s wife was Chang&#8217;e, a legendary lady in the famous story,  &quot;Chang&#8217;e flying to the moon.&quot; Chang&#8217;e swallowed the elixir stolen from  her husband, and she flew to the moon and became the goddess of the  moon, who has lived in the palace on the moon ever since. The grief of  the loss of his wife changed Houyi completely. He became violent and  changed from a hero welcomed by the mortals to being hated as a tyrant.  At last,Yi was killed by Fengmeng, a disciple of Yi who learned to shoot  from him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1233132177\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houyi, also called simply Yi, was the hero who shot  the suns in the ancient mythology of China. He is sometimes potrayed as a  god of archery descended from heaven to aid mankind, and sometimes as  the chief of the Youqiong Tribe during the Xia Dynasty.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2837],"tags":[133],"class_list":["post-6553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-chinese-mythology","tag-chinese-mythology"],"views":480,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}